In Episode 3 of The Phil Vischer Podcast, the crew discusses pop culture and Lady Gaga before interviewing Wake Forest biophysicist Jed Macosko. Listen here or download from iTunes. Jed Macosko is a leading physicist at Wake Forest University whose dedication to making science more appealing to middle-schoolers and masters’ candidates alike has been celebrated by other scholars and the White House. With research interests spanning biophysics, thermodynamics and drug discovery, Macosko helped develop a video game that teaches middle school students advanced cellular science, and more importantly, how to love it.
Episode 3: Lady Gaga and Guest Jed Macosko
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2012
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Phil Fisher. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with my friend Sky and Christian |
| 0:14.3 | High Sky. Hi Phil. Hi Christian. Hey, how you doing? |
| 0:17.6 | Great. We've got a great show for you today. We actually have our first special guest |
| 0:21.0 | that we've ever had on the podcast, which we'll get to a little bit later on. And I wrote |
| 0:26.2 | a new theme song. I was making up a different theme song for every show and I kind of got |
| 0:29.4 | tired of that. And I figured eventually they were all going to stand exactly the same |
| 0:32.2 | because there are only so many things you can rhyme with the word podcast. And I was going |
| 0:35.9 | to get stuck in a rut and just get worse. So I just said, I'll just write one and then |
| 0:39.2 | I'll just sing the same. But I'm going to sing it live because that's more spontaneous. |
| 0:44.0 | And you never know what's going to happen. Never know. That's the thing with live performance, |
| 0:47.6 | right? Right. Okay. So go something like this. Hey, it's a podcast. What do you know? |
| 0:53.2 | Hey, it's a podcast. So there's no video. Hey, it's a podcast. So lend in here. The |
| 0:59.2 | Phil Visher podcast starts right here. We'll talk to Sky and Christian to and maybe a guest here |
| 1:06.8 | just for you. Hey, it's a podcast. So lend in here. The Phil Visher podcast starts right here. |
| 1:15.8 | The Phil Visher podcast starts right here. And there was much rejoicing. All right, |
| 1:24.3 | impressive, most impressive. That's our theme song. How is your week? Sky has given up shaving. |
| 1:31.0 | I have. And it's in that the hair is coming in on the bottom half of his head, |
| 1:36.0 | faster than the top half of his head. Yes, I am folically challenged. |
| 1:41.2 | I do observation. It was a long weekend. I had to battle in my yard. And I just felt like |
| 1:46.4 | I needed to be more, you know, odd, not sure all. Yeah, kind of. You're barbarian. You're going |
| 1:52.6 | with the bear girls. Yeah. Did you take it on the yard? Did you shower over the weekend? I have |
| 1:57.9 | bathed at least once. Okay, that's pretty good. I can vouch. Okay, but you had a good memorial. |
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